Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

4 reviews

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

This was an interesting look into the work that's gone into linking the fields of criminal investigation and psychology/psychiatry. To have to pretend to empathize with murderers and violent criminals as a necessary part of one's job sounds incredibly draining. One of the hospitals mentioned in the section addressing the two killer nurses is familiar to me.  It was unsettling, though I guess my reaction points out the idea a lot of us live under, which is that violent crimes happen to other people in other place. It can't happen to us, or near where we feel safe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pedophilia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Rape, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction and Alcohol

ksuazo94's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Child abuse, Grief, Animal cruelty, Death, and Sexual violence

alisanti's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Murder, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, Racism, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Drug use, Child abuse, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Rape, Torture, Murder, and Abandonment

thelovelylibrarylady's review against another edition

dark informative tense slow-paced

4.0

When I stumbled upon this book written by John E. Douglas, the FBI criminal profiler who served as an inspiration for Mindhunter (a Netflix series), I knew that I had to read it. Not only am I a huge fan of the show, but I also have an interest in true crime. Douglas has talked to some of the most infamous criminals - mostly murderers - in the United States and his recounts of these meetings are phenomenal. He takes time to explain why murders commit the heinous crimes they do while walking the reader through four key interrogations he has led. I want to add that there is some content in this title that is disturbing. Douglas does share some graphic descriptions of violence and readers should take note of that before diving in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Physical abuse